[bt-devel] Integration into KDE (e.g. KDEEDU)

[cbaleansub at porchlight.ca]

Hi Heiko,

My name is Cristian Balean and I am helping with the translation of
BibleTime to Romanian. I thank you for your offer and I would personally
love to see BibleTime integrated into KDE. But do you think this if
feasible, having a Christian program integrated right into KDE? Do you
think the KDE folks would accept this?
As for how much work it would be to keep BibleTime up to date with KDE, I
am not sure. That is a question for the real developers like Joachim,
Martin and others. Also the question is would they be willing and would
they have time to do this? As for me I would love to help with anything I
can. I think this would be really big and awesome for BibleTime and not
only!


Kind regards,

Cristian

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just came across bibletime, and I just liked it. (Especially the
> possibility
> to compare four different versions of the ancient Greek NT.)  It just
> looks
> nice.
>
> And I have one question that I would like to ask you:
> Would you like to be part of KDE. I think it would fit nicely into the
> kdeedu
> (http://edu.kde.org) package (edutainment).
> <quote>
> The KDE Edutainment Project
>  We are developing high-quality educational software for the K Desktop
> Environment. Our primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the
> specialized user interface needs of young users. However, we also have
> programs to aid teachers in planning lessons, and others that are of
> interest
> to university students and anyone else with a desire to learn!
> </quote>
>
> Some time ago I worked on KStars (desktop planetarium). We started as a
> source
> forge project and when kdeedu was started, we had the opportunity to join.
> This helped us a lot to make KStars known, as it is distributed alongside
> with KDE.
>
> For bibletime this would mean:
> 1) KDE distributions would include bibletime, so bibletime would be
> included
> in all major Linux distributions.
> 2) The KDE translation teams would translate bibletime into a lot of
> languages. e.g. for KStars we got the Swedish translation for free and we
> got
> a nice reply from a Swedish father who told us that KStars was the only
> free
> desktop planetarium available in Swedish and that his child really liked
> it.
> The child knew Swedish, but no English.
>
> I proposed that to Anne-Marie Mahfouf from kdeedu and got this reply from
> her:
>
>> Hi Heiko,
>>
>> First, it's not sure that the BibleTime team has any wish to be part of
>> KDE-Edu. this implies to be up-to-date with kdelibs and to follow the
>> KDE
>> releases so there are several rules to follow that maybe they don't want
>> to
>> follow.
>> I suggest you ask them first if they want to be part of KDE (I don't say
>> KDE-Edu here) official.
>> BibleTime was started with KDE1 and they never integrated KDE official.
>>
>> If they agree to be part of KDE official and to follow the conditions
>> implied, then the whole KDE people should state its opinion about that.
>> As
>> you know, KDE tends to be international and I am not sure how BibleTime
>> can
>> be integrated. This has to be widely debated and in any case can I take
>> any
>> decision myself. I am the KDE-Edu maintainer in the sense of keeping
>> things
>> togetther in the module but I don't take any decisions about the
>> programs
>> that join or not.
>>
>> So the first thing you should do is ask the BibleTime team about their
>> intentions for joining KDE and then ask KDE (kde-devel or kde-core-devel
>> mailing lists) where this program could be integrated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> I, personally, would really like to see your program integrated, because
> it
> would help to make bibletime known. And so I am now asking you for your
> opinion on this.
>
> I am looking forward to your answers.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heiko Evermann
> (KDE Low Saxon translation team)
>
>
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